Earl Showalter Services for Earl Showalter, 64, of 1417, 42nd St., Rock Island, operator of Showalter's Skelley Service Station the past 19 years, will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday in the Wheelan Chapel and at 11 a.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Rock Island. burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be after 7 p.m. today at the funeral home, where the rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Sunday. Mr. Showalter died Thursday night at St. Anthony's Hospital after a brief illness. He was born in Charlotte, Iowa. He married Helen Boyle in (Oct.) 1929 in Mason City Iowa. He had been employed at the former Economy Chevrolet, Rock Island. He was a past president of Hilltop businessmen's Assn. Survivors include his wife, a daughter, Mrs. Alex (Janet) Krauska Jr., Milwaukee, Wis; three sons, the Rev. Paul Showalter, Monmouth, Ill. and Jack and Tom both of Rock Island; eight grandchildren; a sister, Sister Mary Madonna, Bernard, Iowa, and brothers, Albert of Washington, D. C.; Linus of Dyersville, Iowa; Leo of St. Paul, Minn.; Edwin of Delano, Minn.; Cyril and Frank both of Cedar Rapids, Ia; Harold of Elma, Iowa, and The Rev. Norbert Showalter of Garnavillo, Iowa. Memorials may be made to the Arrowhead Ranch Building Fund. Davenport Times Democrat Sat. April 27, 1968 Typed by Lyman Morrison, 1994. Albert Kenneth Showalter, Sr. Albert K. Showalter, 78, a government meteorologist for 43 years before retiring in 1972 from the U. S. Weather Service, died of pneumonia March 15 at Commonwealth Hospital. Mr. Showalter, who lived in Georgetown, Del., maintained a home in the Washington area from 1930 to 1972. He began his career with the old U. S. weather Bureau office, where he was an early television weatherman. During the 1960's he worked in Antarctica and participated in the "water for peace" program. He retired in 1972 as a senior physical scientist. Mr. Showalter was a 1928 cum laude graduate of Loras College in his native Iowa. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a fellowship. He was a past president of the father's club at the Archbishop Carroll High School and served on an Advisory Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He was a member of the American Meteorological Society and the Royal Meteorology Society. His government awards included a 1954 Commerce Department Exceptional Service Gold Medal. Survivors include his wife, Martha B. of Georgetown, Del.; 3 sons A. Kenneth of Arlington, J. Gordon of Fort Washington, and Robert L. of Chalfort, Pa.; two daughters, Lisa Hopkins of Charleston, Mass. and Teresa S. Conner of Odenton, Md.; a brother, Harold of Elma, Iowa and 9 grandchildren. Washington Post March 17, 1986 Typed by Lyman Morrison, 1994. A. Showalter Dies; Poetic Weatherman Albert K. Showalter, a meteorologist who often apologized in verse for inaccurate forecasts of Los Angeles weather, has died in Virginia, his wife reported this week. The former head of what was then the Southern California office of the U.S. Weather Bureau--now the National Weather Service--was 78 and had retired in 1972 after 43 years of weather forecasting for the government, seven of them (1946-1952) in Los Angeles. Showalter's tenure in Los Angeles was marked by a growing awareness of smog, and he was among the first to provide visibility forecasts as cars and industries were starting to be blamed for a mounting blanket of pollutants. But he became better known for his honesty and wit when his predictions went awry, once Teletyping local newspapers about a storm that had failed to materialize: Last night we saw upon the air A little storm that wasn't there. It wasn't there again today. Now how did that storm get away? In addition to apologies, he also penned poetic predictions. This one for the 1951 Hollywood Bowl Easter sunrise service: At Easter dawn the sun will shine; No rain, no smog, no dew. And if to hills you plan to climb, 'Twill be a brilliant view. Not surprisingly, he may have been the most frequently published Los Angeles poet of the time. In an era when local saloons were closed on Election Day, he once notified the media that "the bars may be closed in Los Angeles today, but it is really dry in Las Vegas. Relative humidity there is only 2%." He said his predilection for simple honesty came from his family. He was one of 13 children born to an Iowa farmer, and "you learn that it is as easy to explain something simply to your fellow man as to try and baffle him with your superior knowledge." A mathematics and science graduate of Loras College in Iowa, Showalter joined the Weather Bureau in 1929 and went to work in the air mass analysis section of the bureau's Washington headquarters. Flood Research He did research on prospective floods for the Army Corps of Engineers and then came to Los Angeles, where he was considered a national expert on rainfall forecasting. But, as he liked to observe, there was not one major storm during his tenure here. At a time when space satellites existed only on the comic pages, Showalter's forecasts were based primarily on three weather ships in the Pacific and observations by aviators as they flew to the West Coast. He left Los Angeles in 1953 and spent the balance of his career on the East Coast, where he was instrumental in setting up President Lyndon B. Johnson's International Conference on Water for Peace in 1967. Los Angeles Times (CA) Date: April 23, 1986 Author: BURT A. FOLKART Edition: Home Edition Page: 1-21 Linus P. Showalter Linus P. Showalter, 66, of Dyersville, Iowa, died Wednesday June 14, 1978. He was a member of the K. C.'s and the Dyersville Commercial Club, founder and coordinator of the Beckman Endowment Fund, and a retired insurance agent and businessman. Surviving are his wife Catherine, four daughters; Mrs. Leon (Rose Marie) Lammers of Fairmont, Minn.; Mrs. Pat (Elizabeth) Scherrman of Dyersville, Mrs. Tom (Peggy) Westoff of Erie, Pa. and Jeanne of Dubuque, Iowa; two sons; Linus Pat of Delavan, Wis. and Tim in Dyersville; four stepdaughters (one is Mrs. Phil Vesey of Cedar Rapids); four brothers; Leo of St. Paul, Minn., Edwin of Delano, Minn., Albert of Georgetown, Delaware and Harold of Elma, Iowa; one sister, Sister M. Madonna of Cedar Rapids, Services 12:00 Saturday at the Basilica of St. Francis Xavier. Service 8:00 p.m. Friday evening at Kramer Funeral Home. Friends may contribute to the Beckman Endowment Fund. Cedar Rapids Gazette June, 1978 Typed by Lyman Morrison, 1994. I also have one from the Dyersville Commercial which has a few more details about the service. MRS. LINUS SHOWALTER Dyersville, Ia. --- Mrs. Lines (Mary) Showalter, 46, of Dyersville, died at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Xavier Hospital in Dubuque. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Francis Xavier Basilica in Dyersville. Burial will be in St. Francis Cemetery. Friends may call after 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Kramer Funeral Home in Dyersville. She is survived by her husband; four daughters, Mrs. Leon (Rose Marie) Lammers, Cedar Rapids, Ia., Mrs. Pat (Betty Ann) Scherrman, Dyersville; Mrs. Thomas (Mary M.) Westhoff, Florrisant, Md., and Jeannie at home; two sons, Pat and Tim, both at home; eight grandchildren; three brothers, Paul McClimmon, Lost Nation, Ia., Maurice McClimmon, Bettendorf, Ia., and John McClimmon, Dyersville; one sister, Mrs. Jim (Bernadette) Billups, Maquoketa, Ia. The parish Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Nov 11, 1964 Dubuque Telegraph Herald